Associate Director of IT EPR Programme - Technology

NHS; Catford; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an Associate Director of IT for its Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. This pivotal role involves managing EPR technology projects to enhance patient care across the Trust. The successful candidate will have extensive NHS experience, strong project management skills, and hold a Master's degree in a relevant field. A competitive salary of £76,965 to £88,682 per annum plus HCAS is offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience at a senior level in a complex environment.
• Experience managing significant budgets and leading technical teams.
• NHS experience and exposure to community EPR systems required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement EPR priority projects across the Trust.
• Establish a programme of works to facilitate delivery of the EPR technology.
• Build relationships with senior managers and external partners to ensure project success.

Skills

Strategic planning

Change management

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Education

Master's Degree or equivalent in business, health or Information Technology

Prince 2 Practitioner certification

ITIL Foundation accreditation

Job description

Associate Director of IT EPR Programme - Technology

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the most transformative digital health initiatives at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT).As the Associate Director, EPR Programme - Technology, you will be at the heart of our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme, leading the deployment of new End User Technology (EUT), supporting equipment, and enabling infrastructure across all LGT sites.

This role is a critical enabler for the success of the Trust's digital transformation programme -- ensuring that our clinical and operational teams have the modern, reliable, and secure tools they need to deliver outstanding care.

Reporting directly to the EPR Chief Enterprise Solution Architect, you will work closely with IT colleagues, external technology partners, and clinical and operational leaders to ensure the efficient delivery of assigned EUT projects within agreed timescales and budgets.

You will operate across the Trust's acute and community settings, helping to shape the digital landscape of the organisation, drive innovation, and make a tangible impact on patient outcomes.If you are passionate about delivering complex technology programmes in healthcare, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to be part of a milestone moment in our digital journey, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference.

Main duties of the job

As a senior member of the IT Department and EPR Programme, the post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for end user technology and infrastructure elements supporting the Trust's EPR and digital transformation objectives.

This role requires a capable and experienced leader who can operate effectively in a complex, fast-paced environment, working at local and regional levels. The post holder will be responsible for aligning business objectives, technology delivery, and innovation initiatives into a cohesive strategic plan, and ensuring its successful implementation.

The Associate Director, EPR Programme - Technology will be responsible for leading highly complex programmes of IT transformation and change related to the technology delivery elements of the EPR Programme, which underpin the rollout across acute and community sites.

This role will support the day-to-day management of the EPR IT project delivery teams, ensuring the effective execution of the Trust's technology enabled transformation agenda. The role will also carry substantial capital and revenue budgetary responsibility, operating across all hospital sites.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

• Establish a programme of works to facilitate delivery of the EPR technology Pilar.
• Lead and implement EPR priority projects across the Trust with effective project management processes and systems that guarantee delivery and identify risks; ensuring risks and issues are effectively managed.
• Write complex reports and business cases, supporting Divisional, IT and EPR Teams.
• Ensure that accurate and regular highlight reports are reported at the relevant EPR project / programme boards and Digital Steering Group; this will include exception reporting.
• Build effective relationships with senior managers and clinicians within the Trust and key external partners in Primary and Secondary Care to ensure that the desired EPR technology transformational changes are achieved with the maximum benefits for patients and carers.
• Analyse and interpret complex data for local use and exercise effective judgement in the analysis of that data to make recommendations.
• Lead on technical policy development for the EPR Change Programme and establish procedures and systems that support the delivery of an effective and efficient service, meeting standards as specified by the Trust, across SEL and the wider NHS.
• Develop working relationships with facilities, procurement, HR and finance with reference to the EPR programme.
• Negotiate and manage resources bids to take projects /schemes of work forward as necessary and be able to demonstrate cost benefit analysis.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Master's Degree or equivalent in business, health or Information Technology
• Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent Project Management experience
• ITIL Foundation accreditation

Experience

• Extensive experience at a senior level in a complex environment
• Change management experience with evidence of sustained changes
• Experience of strategic planning within the NHS
• Substantial achievement of successful partnership working in a complex environment with stakeholders to achieve beneficial changes
• Using patient and public involvement in service delivery and/or service planning
• Exposure to, and involvement in contributing to meeting the corporate agenda
• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary clinical and professional staff in changing and developing services
• Experience of analysing financial and numerical trends
• Successfully managing and developing a technical team in a complex environment
• Management of significant budgets
• Experience writing and reviewing NHS Policy documents and developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS)
• NHS Experience
• Community EPR System Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£76,965 to £88,682 a yearper annum plus HCAS